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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Awk replacing file with user input Post 302643765 by SkySmart on Sunday 20th of May 2012 02:32:23 PM
Old 05-20-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by Peasant
Perhaps something like this :
Code:
BEGIN {
printf "Input a file :\n"
getline file < "-"
if (system("test -f "file) == 1 ) { # or whatever test you want.
	print "file not found"
	}
else
	{
	print "file found"	
		while((getline < file )>0)
     		S[$0]
	}
for ( i in S )
	print i
}

im trying to get away from using the file.

the program runs like this:

Code:
code.sh filename datafile

filename contains a list of host.

but what if i already have a specific host i want to check against the datafile. i dont want to specify a file containing a list of other host names for that.

so, i want to be able to specify the specific host i want from the command like. something like this:

Code:
code.sh hostname datafile

but the code i posted only seems to like files. it doesn't respond to variables.
 

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